Common Threads will see the Women’s Art Register revisit its rich feminist archive through the critical lens of decolonising and with a future vision of inclusivity.

A huge congratulations to our Secretary Caroline Phillips on her well-deserved win in the recent Yarra Community Awards! Caroline was awarded for her amazing contribution to the arts in the City of Yarra.

Seen and Unseen: Expressions of Koorie Identity is on show at the Koorie Heritage Trust until 21 November. We’re thrilled that lockdown was lifted just in time so that people are able to view this incredible exhibition in person.

As the largest general reference work on the internet, Wikipedia is hugely popular. But did you know that less than 10% of the editors on Wikipedia are women, and only 18% of Wikipedia biographies are about women? When it comes to women artists and creators, that number is even lower. Join the Women's Art Register and Wikimedia Australia for a virtual Wikipedia editing session on Wednesday 16 June to amplify the voices of Australian women artists.

We are incredibly lucky to have such a passionate team of volunteers here at the Women's Art Register. Without these wonderful individuals, we simply wouldn't exist! One of our team, Leia Alex, was recently interviewed by the City of Yarra for a video and blog they put together to celebrate Yarra's volunteers.

In case you missed our recent Preserve Your Story workshop series, the screen recordings and handouts are now available online. The series of four workshops provide an overview of simple conservation and archiving techniques to care for your collections at home.

As part of the recent Flesh after Fifty: Changing images of older women in Art program, we hosted the Preserving Your Future forum with our partners And Also Presents. Held at Abbotsford Convent on Thursday 18 March, it was a fantastic evening with plenty of opportunity for discussion between the audience and speakers.

Another fantastic International Women's Day spent writing women artists from our collection into history on Wikipedia. Our IWD Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was hosted this year by the Richmond branch of Yarra Libraries on Saturday 6 March.

On 8 March 2020—International Women's Day—we joined forces, once again, with our friends at Wikimedia Australia and WikiD: Women, Wikipedia, Design, to host our annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

From July to December 2019, we display a rotating selection of archival material from the Women's Art Register, curated by Juliette Peers, Caroline Phillips and Leia Alex.

Re-Register: Australian Women Sculptors from the Women’s Art Register is the inaugural Women's Art Register Artist-In-Residence program. During her residency, artist Julia Boros explored the 1978 Women’s Art Register research project Profile of Australian Women Sculptors: 1860–1960 by Bonita Ely and Anna Sande.

As the largest general reference work on the internet, Wikipedia is hugely popular. But did you know that less than 10% of the editors on Wikipedia are women, and only 17% of Wikipedia biographies are about women? Therefore it goes without saying that women artists are vastly under-represented in Wikipedia content.

Coinciding with the 2018 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition presented by the National Gallery of Victoria, MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, an extensive program of events was presented by leading Melbourne organisations and communities exploring culture, politics, business and the everyday experience as seen through the eyes of New Yorkers and Australians.

Finding the Field was a collaborative exhibition with Nathalie Thomas (creator of nattysolo.com) and the Women’s Art Register at True Estate, Brunswick in April 2018. Nat responded to the contentious re-staging of the National Gallery of Victoria’s 1968 exhibition, The Field, in The Field Revisited, at the NGV in 2018.

As part of the exhibition Unfinished Business at ACCA a group discussion considered a number of questions: What is the 'Unfinished Business' of the Women's Art Register? Is the Women's Art Register undervalued and under-recognised by major institutions? How can we (re)position the Women's Art Register's unique place in Australia's history as a critical force in contemporary politics and culture?

Conspicuous Presence at Trocadero Artspace makes visible the work of five Australian women artists, all Women of Colour. Through the heightened material presence of their work, the artists’ deploy conspicuous methods of commanding our attention; accentuating materiality, embracing a highly charged and embodied physicality, and gleaning our sensory reactions through their processes of making.